18 Friday Jul 2025
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16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, camera, eggs, fields, flowers, friend, fun, garden, happy, Miss Millie’s Flower Farm, moments, mug, nature, Nikon, picking, plants, time, weather, widow
this morning we drove to Miss Millie’s Flower Farm and had a lovely time in the fields…
my adventure buddy gathered flowers, and I gathered photographs with my Nikon… great fun for both of us…
of the 125 photos I took, I was very pleased with about 75…
the weather was perfect, overcast and cool, and there were few bugs… we had been there in August of 2022 and the mosquitoes had been voracious at that time…
the fields were not as far along due to the weather but it is a beautiful place to spend time in… so happy I remembered that taking pictures was more fun for me than gathering flowers;-)… and nice to get the camera out for a change;-)…
I also brought home some fresh eggs and a new tea mug (Sugar & Spice Pottery);-)…
13 Sunday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, family, farmers, Farmers Market, food, fresh veggies, garden, grandson, moments, nature, peas, potatoes, treat, weather, widow
finally made it to a farmers market today… when I worked we would often get to the market which was either beside, or in, the Hydro building…
this is just a small one, located in the parking lot of a fairly close grocery store…
so excited to get peas, yay… and carrots, radishes, green and regular onions, garlic, asparagus, baby potatoes (both white and red), and dill…
so far I’ve had peas with my lunch and supper, lol…
next up will be potatoes with peas, carrots, asparagus, and dill… yum…
12 Saturday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, bird feeder, blessed, deer, doorbell cam, moments, nature, planter, scared, standoff, Technology, weather, widow
on Friday evening the doorbell cam advised there was an animal in the front yard (bit fuzzy)…
I ran downstairs to watch out the window and was quite happy watching the two deer…
until one started to eat the plants in one of the planters…
I knocked on the window but it didn’t scare it…
stared right back at me…
and as I watched them head to the hostas next door, I went outside to scare them away…
but they really didn’t want to go… they even started walking towards me, but after about a three minute standoff, they finally crossed the street and headed toward the creek…
11 Friday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delicious, food, garden, happy, moments, nature, peas, pick, shelling, step stool, treat, weather, widow
this morning I picked the peas from the side garden;-)…
had to use the step stool to get the higher ones and my housemate picked the last couple that I couldn’t reach…
I spent a lovely fifteen minutes shelling them…
then boiled and ate them for lunch…
yum, what a treat;-)…
10 Thursday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, cheese, dad, family, food, lunch, memories, memory, moments, remembering, sandwich, sardines, widow
today, as I was making my lunch, I was reminded of my dad…
he loved sardines and would often make a sardine sandwich for his lunch when he was home…
when he worked he had a cheese sandwich every single day🤪…
back to the sardines, lol…
he would smash them up in a bowl with a fork and a bit of the oil from the container and then put the mix onto white bread…
I mashed mine up and then topped up some premium crackers with the mixture… tasty and went well with the cucumber, onion, tomato salad which I also made…
sweet memory;-)…
09 Wednesday Jul 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, delightful, lamb, moments, photograph, piccata, pickerel, Pine Ridge Hollow, restaurant, schmoo, shops, wandered, weather, widow
today, we celebrated one of our group’s birthdays by spending the afternoon at Pine Ridge Hollow…
we drove out in a hybrid electric car and spent a couple of hours wandering through all the shops…
we followed that up with an excellent dinner at the restaurant…
our meal started with beet chips and goat cheese ranch dipping sauce, oh my, so tasty…
four members of the group had pickerel piccata while I had the lamb shank…
my lamb was braised and flame-grilled, came with tabbouleh, fennel slaw, whipped labneh, and a drizzle of chermoula… I had to look up a number of the items on Google but they made a delightful combination;-)…
everyone’s meal was delicious and just a touch different than expected…
the birthday “girl” had schmoo, while others enjoyed the frozen lemon meringue…
we conscripted a fellow restaurant member as they were leaving to take our traditional photo…’you can see we were having a lot of fun;-)…
a leisurely drive home ended another of our special days…
29 Sunday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, bucket, garden, hot, moments, nature, pea pod, reading, relaxing, rest, virginia creeper, weather, widow
it was a hot one yesterday… spent most of it in the garden…
started out with breakfast and a book while it was still cool…
then I took a break and trimmed virginia creeper which had gone crazy with the rain we’ve had recently…
after half an hour I’d filled my bucket between the garage door, entry pergola, and hose area…
back to relaxing;-)… after lunch and a rest in the lounge chair, the time came to move into the house to cool off for a while…
brought in all the cushions as there was a threat of a thunderstorm…
I watched an F1 qualifying session and headed back outside, where there had not been a storm or any rain, lol… had a wander around the vegetable garden and spotted the first pea-pod…
more reading on the deck, followed by a lovely steak for dinner…
finished my book and watched a bit of tv before bed;-)…
26 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, blessed, family, food, Gather Craft Kitchen & Bar, gyro, housemate, lunch, moments, treat, widow, wrap
had lunch at Gather and it was delicious…
I had the gyro…
and it was very tasty;-)…
my housemate had the wrap and enjoyed it immensely…
both meals were filling and reasonably priced…
as always, it felt like a treat to be there…
19 Thursday Jun 2025
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big girl pants, birds, blessed, discourage, food, fresh, garden, happy, moments, nature, plants, snack, squirrels, strawberry, strawberry plant, treat, weather, widow
excited this morning to spot the strawberry that was ripe enough to eat… and pleased that the birds and/or squirrels hadn’t beaten me to it…
I did paint those rocks red and put them around the plant to discourage thieves, lol… maybe they worked…
the strawberry was delicious;-)…
this plant was purchased two years ago and lives in a pot over the summer…in the fall it is transplanted back into the bathtub garden to overwinter;-)…
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